There have been a few jury decisions that haven't been accepted by many fans: Colby losing to Tina, Mariano losing to Amber and Amanda losing to Parvati have been the most debated but even Kelly losing to Hatch, Matt losing to Jenna, Twila losing to Chris and Stephenie losing to Danni rubbed more than one or two people the wrong way.

By the nature of the game, a juror has to be convinced to vote for the player they believe was the best. It isn't the Juror's obligation to forgive and forget. It's the player's obligation to present his actions to the jury in a manner that will be accepted.

Jurors can be emotional like Sue Hawk or detached like ?? There haven't been many! This proves that this game brings out a lot of emotions in its participants and most of those emotions come from the way the game ended for each juror. A player should ALWAYS consider that if he wants to earn the million. It is always best to share the glory of the moves and the blame that comes with it as long as you can prove that those moves were to your benefit. Rafe and Cirie did that better than anyone (even if they never got to plead their case!). Todd managed to do much the same thing in China even if everyone knew he was the lead strategist. JT, amazingly, convinced everyone that he was the strategist and that Stephen even if he shared in the decisions, was mostly his goofy side-kick. Yes, Stephen had himself to blame for letting that perception permeate the jury but JT used it to his advantage. He got the credit, Stephen the blame!

This brings me to Russell: His biggest mistake was to take the full responsibility for every single boot and imagine it would go by smoothly. His ego didn't let anyone in on the plans. His ego cost him the million.

The jury got it right and the votes even show that it wasn't strictly due to bitterness. If it had been strictly Anti-Russell, Mick would have received a vote or two. The fact that Natalie got 7 votes shows that the jury voted for her as much as against Russell.

Russell, greatest player? The player that reminds me the most of Russell is DREAMZ!!!

Before you jump down my throat consider that Dreamz was edited as an non-strategic player when it wasn't the case at all. The problem the editors faced if they had shown Dreamz's game plan was that it would have revealed the African American alliance that Earl initiated on Day 1 and that was taboo to EPMB.

Dreamz was in an alliance with Earl, Anthony, Cassandra and Erica from Day 1. Then, wandering with a group of players, he got asked by Lilianna and Rocky to join an alliance dubbed "the Explorers". Dreamz agreed but informed Earl who had stayed behind to build the shelter. With Yau Man, Anthony, Sylvia, Gary, Cassandra, Boo and Lisi, Earl formed a counter-alliance, "The Shelter Builders". Sylvia used that knowledge to split the alliances between Ravu and Moto. Dreamz stayed close to the Explorers to see what they were up to.

When Moto finally got a date with Jeff, Dreamz warned Cassandra and Lisi of the tribe's plan. Lilianna had failed to get Lisi inside an Hispanic alliance because Lisi didn't trust Lilianna (probably because Dreamz told Lisi that Lilianna was close to Rocky and Mookie more than because Lilianna was a flirt).

With Lisi, Cassandra, Stacy and Boo, Dreamz got Alex and Edgardo to turn on the 1st leader of the "Explorer" alliance. Lilianna was booted. It was never shown that way but that's what really happened to the "Diabolical Mexican".

When the tribe shuffle happened, the new tribes reformed mainly along the original Explorer and Builder alliances. After that, Dreamz next good move was to get Rocky voted out. He couldn't save Anthony and Lisi checked out of the game but Dreamz saved himself and got the 3 horsemen to turn on the other original leader.

After the merge, it was all Dreamz. He went back to his alliance with Earl but he kept in contact with the 3 Horsemen. He saved Alex, (the only horsemen he trusted by then), when he managed to convince them that Alex was the target. Mookie gave up the idol, thinking it would change the game. Dreamz wanted Mookie gone but the switch to Edgardo only delayed his plan by one vote.

In the end, Dreamz got himself in a great position at the F4 except that the jury hated him. His truck deal was no worse than Russell offering deals to John, Dave and EVEN Brett before booting them remorselessly. Dreamz was responsible for many of the boots in Fiji. Like Hantz, he had no idea how the jury perceived him.

If you think Hantz is the greatest player ever, you'd have to put Dreamz right there behind him!